On next week’s episode of Math and Musings (available wherever podcasts are sold) I discuss my frustration with the NFL and “football” in general for keeping the put-my-product-on-traditional-television model of content delivery. Even old white man sports such as baseball and … Continue reading
Final piece of suburban white guy livin’: company softball league starts tonight.
New new obsession in the O’Connell household… WarioWare: Get It Together! This is the tenth installment (so the Internet claims) in the WarioWare series, and the first since 2018. My roommates and I have been playing the demo version just released (free … Continue reading
New family obsession in the O’Connell household is Bake Squad, Netflix original series hosted by Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi. It’s basically Milk Bar on TV, and manages to entertain all three (very different) members of the O’Connell clan. What I … Continue reading
Seen yesterday around the halls of an unnamed middle school in Virginia, a variation of some type of rain dance, visions of school cancellations frolicking about student minds. A few teachers’ minds too. Hurricane Ida, like all hurricanes (even when … Continue reading
Our neighbors to the north, the Baltimore Ravens, set a fantastic but rather dubious record this past Saturday evening. After beating my hometown team (that would be the Washington Football Team), the Ravens have now won twenty straight preseason games. Some … Continue reading
Most old episodes of The Simpsons I watch now entertain me even more than they did when I first watched them because if nothing else I get more of the jokes. They’re more relevant to me now, and I appreciate that. … Continue reading
Well, this is it… the true last day of summer vacation. Shoot.
Every live jazz performance I’ve ever been to, whether in a restaurant, a night club, a concert hall, etc. one thing is always true: people talk during the bass solo. Saturday night at Keystone Korner in Baltimore… no one talked … Continue reading
Last week’s broadcast of Math and Musings, in which I discussed educational policies for six or seven minutes (no, I did not solve all the world’s problems during that time) was probably the closest MAM will come to addressing “real” issues with … Continue reading